TITLE: Isometric Embedding of a separable Banach Space into $\ell^{\infty}$
QUESTION [11 upvotes]: The problem is:
Let $X$ be a separable Banach space then there is an isometric embedding from $X$ to $\ell^{\infty}$.
My efforts:
I showed that there is an isometry from $X^*$ (topological dual) to $\ell^\infty$ in the following way:
Let $(e_{i})_{i=1}^{\infty}$ be a dense sequence in $B_{X}$ then define $\Phi:X^*\rightarrow\ell^\infty$ by $\Phi(f)=(f(e_{i}))_{i=1}^\infty$. 
It is clear that $\Phi$ is an isometry.
An initial idea and a secondary question
Is there any canonical isometry from $X$ to $X^*$ since $X$ is separable (or not)?

REPLY [14 votes]: This is almost the same as the other answers, with a bit of detail:
Let X be a separable Banach space.
Let $(x_n)$  be a  dense sequence in the unit sphere of $X$.
For each $n$, use the Hahn-Banach Theorem to find a  norm-one functional $f_n\in X^*$ with $f_n^*(x_n)=1$.
Define $\Phi: X\rightarrow\ell_\infty$ 
via $$
\Phi(x) =(f_n(x) )
$$
$\Phi$ is clearly linear.
Suppose  $x\in X$ has norm one and let $1>\epsilon>0$. Choose $n_\epsilon$ so that $\Vert x_{n_\epsilon}-x\Vert<\epsilon$. 
Then 
$$\epsilon>|f_{n_\epsilon}(x_{n_\epsilon}-x)|=|f_{n_\epsilon}(x_{n_\epsilon})-f_{n_\epsilon}(x)| = |1-f_{n_\epsilon}(x)|.$$
As $\epsilon$ was arbitrary, this implies that $\Vert \Phi(x)\Vert=\sup\limits_{n\in \Bbb N}|f_n(x ) |\ge 1$.
  Also,
for any $n$, $$|f_n(x)|\le \Vert f_n \Vert \Vert x\Vert =1.$$
and so $\Vert \Phi(x)\Vert\le 1$.
Thus we have $\Vert \Phi(x)\Vert= 1$, whenever $\Vert x\Vert =1$.
From this it follows that for any non-zero element $x$ of $X$, we have
$$\Vert \Phi(x)\Vert= \Vert x\Vert \sup\limits_{n\in \Bbb N}|f_n(x/\Vert x\Vert) | =\Vert x\Vert;$$ and thus, $\Phi$ is an isometry.